Oklahoma lands prominent spot in SI All-American's 2021 'All-Decommitment Team'

Brock Vandagriff was committed to the Sooners before decommitting and pledging to Georgia, but OU rebounded nicely with Caleb Williams

John E. Hoover|

Oklahoma lands prominent spot in SI All-American's 2021 'All-Decommitment Team'

Decommitments are a natural part of college football’s recruiting process. Teenagers change their minds.

Sports Illustrated All-American compiled its All-Decommitment Team offense for the 2021 recruiting cycle, and Oklahoma has a prominent member.

Or, former member.

Brock Vandagriff is the All-Decommitment Team quarterback, according to SIAA’s John Garcia Jr.

“The longtime Oklahoma commitment was one of the biggest recruiting dominoes at any position in the 2021 cycle,” Garcia writes. “When he picked Lincoln Riley and the Sooners back in 2019, there was always an underlying question about how locked in he would be having grown up about 15 miles from the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens.

“Sure enough, the Bogart, GA, Prince Avenue Christian star would change his mind on New Year’s Day 2020, decommitting from OU after after a six-month pledge. Three weeks later he made the expected move to verbal to Kirby Smart and company, where he would help UGA recruit a top five class in the cycle.

“Of course Oklahoma rebounded about as well as one could imagine, landing No. 1 overall prospect Caleb Williams on July 4. Each are now enrolled at their respective programs, kicking off college careers that may forever be linked.”

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Published Feb 11, 2021

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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